Featuring a majority of shorts directed by women, the new Halloween special will hit the road beginning September 27 in Brooklyn, NY.

“The Eyeslicer,” one of independent television’s boldest players, is hitting the road this fall with a new Halloween special chock full of great mind-blowing short films, including the Sundance award-nominated “Great Choice,” starring Carrie Coon.

Featuring shorts from the festival circuit by over a dozen American filmmakers, creators Dan Schoenbrun and Vanessa McDonnell, with the support of Sante Fe-based artist collective Meow Wolf, will be bringing the feature-length creation to theaters in 15 cities for “a chaotic journey through the liminal space of the Halloween season” (per the official release), hosted by “nine amateur Elvira impersonators we found on CraigsList.”

“There are so few opportunities for short films to play on the big screen and be released in a loving and holistic way,” Schoenbrun told IndieWire via email. “We’re core believers in DIO (‘do it ourselves’) instead of DIY, and we hope that this is the main thing the filmmakers get out being a part of the Special: a sense of community, and the comfort of knowing that their work has a longterm home alongside the work of so many other incredible artists.”

From an X-rated Halloween party hookup to a coming of age story set on the eve of Ted Bundy’s execution; from a documentary about pumpkin carving and misogyny to a supercut about the gendered dangers of the bathtub; from a cursed stand-up comedy set to a woman (Carrie Coon) trapped inside a Red Lobster commercial; from a John Carpenter homage (featuring a cameo by Carpenter himself) to a sequel to The Eyeslicer’s now infamous Gwilliam, The Eyeslicer Halloween Special is an experience like no other – a deranged, proudly transgressive anthology carving out a bold new space in the Midnight movie genre.

Schoenbrun told IndieWire that in curating the Halloween special, the most important thing was making sure that it “provided a different kind of Halloween experience from straightforward genre stuff. ‘The Eyeslicer Halloween Special’ is about a lot more than just jumps and scares, psycho killers and David Lynch-style surrealism (though don’t worry: there’s all of that in there, too). We were really interested specifically in work speaking about the horror genre (and everything we as a culture consider ‘spooky’ or ‘Halloween-y’) from a new and challenging perspective.”

“Ghosting the Party” (Dir. Carlos Lopez) – two best friends drop acid and hit on a ghost during a Halloween dance party.

Not only are the majority of these shorts female-directed, but Schoenbrun said, “An investigation of the male gaze as horror cinema convention is the through-line for the entire episode. We hope the experience of watching the Special is super festive, super fun, and totally overwhelming, but also challenging and intellectually rewarding in ways that horror anthologies rarely are.”

The Halloween special will be released digitally as part of “The Eyeslicer” Season 2, but as that’s not set to premiere until 2019, your best bet to experience the horrific fun is find a screening from the list below.

Not playing near you? Schoenbrun said, “If people are interested in bringing the show to their town, they can hit us up at theeyeslicer@gmail.com.” For more details and updates on the tour schedule, go to eyeslicer.com.